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BOOT OR SHOE.

Patented May 15, 1888.

UNrrEn STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

JOHN W. JONES, OF SHOREDITCH, COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, AND EDW'ARD KYN. BRIDGER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

BOOT OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 382,985, dated May 15, 1888.

Application filed March 7, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN WARD J oNEs, of 152 High Street, Shoreditch, in the county of Middlesex, England, engineer,and EDWARD KYNASTON BRIDGER, of Temple Chambers,

Falcon Court, FleetStreet, in the city of London, England,gentle1nan, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Boots or Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of boots or shoes; and it consists in so constructing, mounting, and arranging the different parts that boots or shoes can be made according to our present improvements more economically, more durable, and are easier to repair than has hitherto been the case.

In order that our invention may be the more easily understood and readily carried into practice, we will proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a plan of the bottom of a boot or shoe manufactured in accordance with our improvements. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing details of the parts with the outer sole removed. Fig. 3 is a plan of the inside of the outer sole. Fig. 4. is a transverse section of Fig. 2 on line 00 00. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of Fig. 3 on line y y. Fig. 6 is a similar view to Fig. 1 with outer sole, heel, and waist removed. Figs. 7 and 8 show details of method of mounting the heels; and Fig. 9 is a cross-section of Fig. 2 on line a 2, showing method of mounting the metal waist.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout.

a is the outer sole or sliding fore part, hav ing a metal rim or strip, 72, Figs. 3 and 5, secured thereto on the inner side by nailing, riveting, or machine-sewing.

c is a metal plate, (advantageously formed of thin sheet copper or brass or other malleable metal,) which is nailed, riveted, or machine-sewed to the inner sole and upper, d.

e is the sewing or stitching. The edge e of the plate 0 outside the sewing e projects or 50 stands outsufficiently to allow the metal strip b of the outer sole, a, to be passed thereunder,

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and the outer sole, a, slid on and thus firmly secured to the upper.

The waistfis of metal, having its side edges,

f, turned under so as to overlap and embrace the edges 0 of the metal plate 0. This metal waist f (stamped or otherwise formed of tin plate or other suitable thin sheetmetal plate) is slid onto the edge of the metal plate 0 from the back of the boot, and the heel h (which is advantageously hollow and made of metal, and forms no part of our present invention,except so far as arranging and combining it in this novel manner) is then secured to the: boot or shoe, thus preventing the waist sliding back 6 or moving at all, as by reason of its shape it cannot slide farther forward than as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Now, the sliding metal waistf having been slid on from the back and secured, as described, and the sliding fore part or outer sole,a, hav ing been slid on from the front, the back end,

a, of the latter passes under the front end, f*, of the waist,and the two are firmly secured together by screws or nails. In this case two 7 5 screws, g g, are shown,which pass through the metal waist, then through the holes a in the outer sole, and through the metal plate 0 into metal sockets or eyes mounted and arranged for that purpose under the plate 0. In this manner the twoparts a and f are firmly secured to each other, and when it is desired to renew the outer sole it is only necessary to unscrew these small screwsgg, draw off the worn or old sole, and slide on a new one. The screws are then replaced, as before described, andthe boot or shoe thus resoled in a very little time.

Fig. 6 shows an arrangement in which the metal plate 0 is continued right down to the heel. In this arrangement it is intended to go slide on the heel h under the edge a of the metal plate 0 in a similar manner to the waist and fore part, theinside edge, h,of the hollow metal heel It being turned over for that purpose, (see Figs. 7 and 8,) the waist being first slid on up to its proper position, and then the heel h, which is secured in position by the screw 2', as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent in the United States, is

1. The combination, in boots or shoes, of a metal plate, a, secured to the upper and insole with a sliding fore part,a, a sliding metal waist, f, and heel IL, substantially as set forth. 2. A boot or shoe constructed with a malleable metal plate, a, secured to the upper and insole, and having its outeredge, c, projecting,so as to allow the fore part or outer sole, a, and metal waistf to be slid on the two parts being thus firmly secured to the upper and insole and also firmly secured to each other by the screws 9, substantially as set forth.

3. A boot orshoe constructed with a malleble metal plate, 0, sewed all round (to the upper and insole) a short distance from its edge 0, upon which are slid the outer sole, a, the metal waist f, and the heel h, these parts being respectively prevented from coming off or apart by screws 9 g and it, substantially as set forth.

at. A boot or shoe having a metal waist,f, with edgesf turned under to slide under and embrace a metal plate, such as c, secured to the upper and insole, substantially as set forth.

5. A boot or shoe having asliding fore part or outer sole, a, with a projecting metal edge or rim, b,on its inside, to slide under and embrace the edge 0 of a metal plate, such as 0, secured to the upper andinsole, the back edge of the sliding fore part, a, passing under the front edge of the metal Waist f, these two parts being held together by screws, and thereby firmly secured to the upper and insole, all substantially as set forth.

J. W. JONES. EDW. KYN. BRIDGER.

Witnesses:

HENRY BIRKBEOK,

34 Southampton Buildings, London. WALTER J. SKERTEN,

17 GraceclmrchStreet, London, E, C. 

